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Sertorius was a brilliant and charismatic leader who was able to unite the iberian tribes and some Roman rebels and deserters behind him. He was allied to Pontus and the Cilician pirates. Spartacus was rampaging through italy and Sertorius had defeated several Roman forces including some larger...

Doesn't build a fleet to invade Cyprus, going against the terms of the truce with Rome I reckon that the Seleucid empire could have had it's lifespan extended quite a bit if Antiochus didn't invade Cyprus, as he wouldn't have infringed on the treaty of Apamea. In this case the Romans may not...

Suppose that King Sebastian of Portugal did not die at the Battle of Alcaçer Quibir, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Ksar_El_Kebir The majority of the Portuguese nobility does not die, the Iberian Union is never formed, the Spanish never get their huge naval power, Portugal is not...

So let's say that Antigonus' attempt to defeat Seleucus and reconquer Babylonia succeeds. Seleucus is killed in battle and Antigonus manages to subdue the east again. So events go on, Demetrius sieges Rhodes, captures Cyprus and almost manages to defeat Kassandros. Do you think the allies...

This may seem a little redundant and all but here I go. Ovida was a general during the last days of the Western Roman Empire and also the last Roman ruler of Dalmatia. Following Orestes' coup against Julius Nepos, Ovida remained loyal to the Emperor and accompanied him on his escape to Dalmatia...

European discovery of the Galápagos Islands occurred when Spaniard Fray Tomás de Berlanga, the fourth Bishop of Panama, sailed to Peru to settle a dispute between Francisco Pizarro and his lieutenants. De Berlanga's vessel drifted off course when the winds diminished, and his party reached the...

It appeared that the Ottoman sultan was so desperate for assistance against the Greek rebels who had managed to beat off Ottoman attacks that he called on his viceroy in Egypt, Mehmet Ali Pasha, to intervene. Ali promised to do this in exchange for the Ottomans to hand over Crete and Egypt to...

The lot of you are probably getting annoyed by my need to look for obscure PODs but this one is really interesting and I need it to have it mentioned. Isidore or as he was known in Roman-Egyptian society as Isidorus, was a native Egyptian priest in the second century AD. He led a major native...

Goddas or Godas was a Gothic noblemen who served the Vandal Kingdom in Africa; sent by King Gelimer to collect taxes from the people of Sardinia. The Eastern Roman historican Procopius of Caesarea mentioned Goddas as one of Gelimer's most trusted men, tasked with the administration of Sardinia...

As we know from OTL, Gunderic had been crowned King of the Vandals and Alans when the Alannic king Attaces had been defeated and killed in a battle with the Visigothic king Wallia who invaded Hispania on behalf of Honorius. The defeat was so devastating than the remainder of the Alans pleaded...

At one point Harmachis and Ankmachis had reconquered up to eighty percent of the Egyptian countryside at the height of the uprising against the Ptolemies. What if they did succeed and expel them from the country.

What if Gonzalo Pizarro accepted? There's no doubt that he was popular amongst the men and could potentially transform Peru into his own independent kingdom. The question that I really want to ask is can he maintain enough support that Pedro de la Gasca's offers of pardon wouldn't make a dent in...

What if Hursid Pasha manages to expel Muhammed Ali and his force of Albanians from Egypt? The Ottoman firman would not recognize Ali as governor of Egypt. Sorry again but this one is very interesting.

What if Maniakes manages to avoid that fatal wound and survives the battle? I would presume his soldiers make quick work of Constantine's soldiers and captures Thessalonika without costing him too much of his troops? Would he be successful in overthrowing the Emperor?

As my interests lie in African American history, there are a few points of divergence I'd like to explore and hopefully you can answer them for me. 1) What if Denmark Vesey had succeeded in the Charleston slave uprising? 2) What if Harriet Tubman had been captured and executed by the...

So what changes if Issac Comnenus doesn't take them captive and receives them well, keeping them in his care until Richard arrives. What changes with Cyprus remaining an independent state under Issac's rule?

I'm always interested in how the Ottoman Empire in many TLs usually falls more or less around the time in OTL and either transforms into Republican Turkey or a surviving Ottoman remnant in Turkey (and sometimes with northern Syria and Iraq added it just for kicks). It seems rare to find an...

What if Seleucos Nicator was not assasinated on the shores of Thrace? In 301 BCE he joined Lysimachus in Asia Minor, and at Ipsus Antigonus fell before their combined power. A new partition of the empire followed, by which Seleucos added to his kingdom Syria, and perhaps some regions of...

It seems that Sekigahara was one of those battles like Hastings that could easily have gone either way, especially if Lord Hideaki had decided to side with Ishida Mitsunari and the Western clans instead of betraying them. So how would the alternative history play out if Tokugawa and his allies...

April 480 BC. Xerxes I of the mighty Persian Empire sents foot on european soil with a massive host of over 200,000 men. After three months of marching in hostile terriotory the Persians have not encountered any resistance and are slowly, but surely making their way south, towards the Greek...